Re: returning scalar context from map or grep

Parentheses around the arguments to my provide list context :

perl -le "my ($first) = grep {/bar/} (qw(foo bar baz)); print $first"
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Note please, that I'm not exactly sure whether the parentheses on the left side induce the list context though - others will most likely correct me.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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Re: Re: returning scalar context from map or grep by broquaint (Abbot) on Apr 28, 2003 at 13:20 UTC
Note please, that I'm not exactly sure whether the parentheses on the left side induce the list context though That they do, the `my()` isa lvalue list assignment with only one element in said list. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply]